SLIM is a large area experiment (440m2) installed at the Chacaltaya cosmic ray laboratory since 2001, and about 100m2 at Koksil, Himalaya, since 2003. It is devoted to the search for intermediate mass magnetic monopoles (107–1013 GeV/c2) and nuclearites in the cosmic radiation using stacks of CR-39 and Makrofol nuclear track detectors. In four years of operation it will reach a sensitivity to a flux of about 10−15 cm−2 s−1 sr−1. We present the results of the calibration of CR-39 and Makrofol and the analysis of a first sample of the exposed detector.
Search for intermediate mass magnetic monopoles and nuclearites with the SLIM experiment / S. Cecchini; T. Chiarusi; D. Di Ferdinando;M. Cozzi;M. Frutti; G. Giacomelli; A. Kumar; S. Manzoor; J. McDonald; E. Medinaceli; J. Nogales ; L. Patrizii; J. Pinfold;V. Popa; I.E. Qureshi; O. Saavedra; G. Sher; M.I. Shahzad; M. Spurio; R. Ticona ;V. Togo;A.Velarde. - In: RADIATION MEASUREMENTS. - ISSN 1350-4487. - STAMPA. - 40:(2005), pp. 405-409. [10.1016/j.radmeas.2005.01.008]
Search for intermediate mass magnetic monopoles and nuclearites with the SLIM experiment
CECCHINI, STEFANO;CHIARUSI, TOMMASO;COZZI, MICHELA;GIACOMELLI, GIORGIO MARIA;MEDINACELI VILLEGAS, EDUARDO;PATRIZII, LAURA;POPA, VLAD;SPURIO, MAURIZIO;
2005
Abstract
SLIM is a large area experiment (440m2) installed at the Chacaltaya cosmic ray laboratory since 2001, and about 100m2 at Koksil, Himalaya, since 2003. It is devoted to the search for intermediate mass magnetic monopoles (107–1013 GeV/c2) and nuclearites in the cosmic radiation using stacks of CR-39 and Makrofol nuclear track detectors. In four years of operation it will reach a sensitivity to a flux of about 10−15 cm−2 s−1 sr−1. We present the results of the calibration of CR-39 and Makrofol and the analysis of a first sample of the exposed detector.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
